As we are oft to do, we wanted to find out what kinds of games you play. 94% of you play Tabletop Roleplaying Games (only 4 people who voted do not), 71% of you play console games, and 67% play boardgames. Amazingly, 0% are not gamers at all… they have all fled from our gamerdom.
TheMainEvent ran this gem of a story by me:
Ridley Scott, who has been attached as a producer on “Monopoly” and has been mentioned as a possible director, is now officially attached to helm the project, with an eye toward giving it a futuristic sheen along the lines of his iconic “Blade Runner.”
Which naturally lead the two of us (both aspiring screen writers) to begin pitching ideas back and forth:
“Accused of a crime he didn’t commit…” “Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200”(Fat Cat CEO dressed up like monopoly man laughs)“A victim of a beauacracy gone mad…” “What do you mean, my 4 houses have been replaced by a hotel?”“Pushed to the brink…” “Why do I have to pay so much money just for visiting the boardwalk?”“His only option left…” “My only option now is to establish: A MONOPOLY“In the rain, our hero on his knees: “MOOOOONNNOOOOPPPPOOOLLLLLYYYYY!!!!!”
As you can tell, we don’t have much faith in the movie, even with Ridley Scott attached. But maybe there are worse ideas for movies?
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While you’re at it, feel free to pitch us some scenes and lines from any of the proposed movie. Maybe your script can be selected to be involved in a multi-million dollar product-placement movie!
Connect Four… The cockblock of all games
Operation! And its Sequel, Operation II: Zombie ER!
I’d like to see Francis Ford Coppola’s “Chess.”
King to Pawn: “I’m going to make you an offer you can’t refuse.”
Well is it a movie of the game or a movie about the game? Cause you could make a movie about any game interesting (see, for example, Bobby Fischer as an example of a movie about chess).
Letsee…
They’ve already made a TV show of Trivial Pursuit, so I can see that continuing. Plus a romantic comedy about a trivia wiz who is “pursuing” a girl seems marketable.
I’d love to see a cheesy Sci-Fi action movie of checkers. Wasn’t there a movie (or a spoof or something) that had someone who knows how to play checkers saving an alien race from bad guys who flew ships shaped like giant checker pieces? And you’d like fly over them to bomb them?
I can see a movie based on Monopoly–basically a surreal version of one of the various “money corrupts” films (titles elude me at the moment).
Scrabble is a hard one, as is Yahtzee… Scrabble is just a puzzle game, while Yahtzee is mostly luck of the dice. I can see a caper/gambling film where Yahtzee is a motif (if not based on the game), so I guess I’d have to say Scrabble would make the worst film.
highbulp: I think the checkers spoof you’re thinking of was in Robot Chicken.
Scrabble actually has an excellent documentary called “Word Wars” about competitive Scrabble-play. But that wasn’t the kind of movie I was thinking of 🙂
Scrabble played a key role in the movie Akeelah and the Bee. That’s why my vote went to Yahtzee, though I’d have gone with Connect Four if it had been an option.
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Pudovkin’s “Chess Fever” was one of those sorts of movies and I highly enjoyed it, at least more than the work of other russian filmmakers of the time (I’m looking at you Eisenstein!)…there’s also this brilliant film (also about Chess), which despite its poor production value manages to pull off the idea quite effectively…
Although it isn’t a boardgame, Rev believes War would be the worst game to make a movie about…as far as boardgames go, he’ll nominate Clue…
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@highbulp: What you’re describing sounds to me like the short fake trailer for a Tetris movie, a sci-fi futuristic world where people fly giant tetris pieces in dramatic ways.
I honestly think most of these COULD make a decent movie, but are far more likely to be terrible. I voted for Scrabble because I think it might be the most boring if literally turned into a movie with little creativity put into it.
@Rev Mike
Clue?
You do realise it’s been done, right? And that it’s actually a decent movie?
In fact, I’d recommend taking inspiration from it for Monopoly, making it an insane comedy where New York is suddenly a publicly traded corporation, and a bunch of stockbrokers running around trying to buy up all of the city. Or something.
@highbulp
You mean like Brewster’s Millions, but the main character is a boot?
Also, I think Dave’s right that the checkers thing is from Robot Chicken. It’s a parody of The Last Starfighter, wherein the skills needed were in video game space shooters (think Wing Commander).
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@Graham – Ah, no…hadn’t realized that…figured it actually could be a decent movie but any attempt at making it so would end up failing or be an odd comedy…
And bleh…just realized what game I was trying to think of before I settled on Clue…Backgammon…bloody computer keeps rolling doubles at the very end and steals my victory out from under me…
Also, GAME…I’m tempted to take what you’ve written of Monopoly, expand it a bit, and make it into a full-fledged fake trailer…is that cool with you?…
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Rev: That’d be awesome!
A Cat and a Laser Pointer: the Movie.
I think I’m going to have to come up with something for Kerplunk now.
I’m sure Buckaroo has been done in some dirty movie shop though.
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“Hungry, Hungry Hippos: This time, it’s personal”
“Don’t Wake Daddy or He’ll Kill You”
“Candyland San Andreas”
“Solitaire the Boringing”
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I think it’s enough that movies get made about video games.
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Some learning game where you have to set the clock to the time you land on
@Graham No, I’m thinking something along the lines of Wall Street (once I looked up the title). And I could imagine the characters all being ‘nicknamed’ after the pieces. So there’s “Shoe”, who maybe always has a new pair of sneakers on or some other gimmick. And maybe “Dog” tends to have (and look like) a mutt. I’m not quite sure what to do with “Thimble”.
If you look at the film Lock, Stock, and 2 Smoking Barrels, the characters are all named like that (but not for any obvious reason): Bacon, Soap, Dog, etc…
And yeah, I had thought the checkers thing was Robot Chicken, but I couldn’t remember the exact source ;p I still think you could pull that out to feature length. A parody version of Last Starfighter based on a board game? I’d go see it ;p
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None of them will beat Clue.
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